[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] busybox: re-enable telnet applet

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Feb 18, 2018, at 2:27 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 20/06/17 19:13, Stefan Tomanek wrote:
>> While sshd should be favoured over telnetd, having a telnet client on the
>> router is useful for connecting to other devices in the same LAN.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tomanek <stefan.tomanek at wertarbyte.de>
> 
> sorry for the late reply, it has been discussed over and over and the decision was made to not enable telnet by default. sorry ...
> 
>     John

Too bad.  While it’s a liability for logging in, it’s a great tool for testing remote services like HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, JetDirect printers, etc.


>> ---
>>  package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in |    4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in b/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
>> index 1977e7f..9e0efcf 100644
>> --- a/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
>> +++ b/package/utils/busybox/Config-defaults.in
>> @@ -2289,10 +2289,10 @@ config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_TCPSVD
>>      default n
>>  config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_TELNET
>>      bool
>> -    default n
>> +    default y
>>  config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_TELNET_TTYPE
>>      bool
>> -    default n
>> +    default y
>>  config BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_TELNET_AUTOLOGIN
>>      bool
>>      default n
> 
> 
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